Toilet-paper holder



J. a. ISHAM.

TOILET PAPER HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 17, I92!- 194:1 1 29 Patented. Mar. 28, 1922.

l v- I] N I i A i I L fllli MWVENTOR.

7M1 I ATTORNEY.

UNITED srar es JOHN B. ISHAM, or HAMPDEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

atinas.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. ISHAM, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Hampden, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Toilet-Paper Holder, of which the following is a specification.-

My invention relates to improvements in appliances for'holdingpackages of sheets of paper and for dispensing or feeding such sheets individually, and consists essentially of a backing provided with front and rear supports for a wire which passes through a package of fiat sheetsof paper, the front support also being for a hanger as well. as for said wire-the said hanger suspended from its support and movable thereon, and a feeder movably connected with such hanger, together with such other parts and members-as may be necessary or desirable in order to render the appliance completein every respect,all ashereinafter set forth.

This appliance is especially designed for holding and dispensing toilet-paper, but may, of course, be used 'forotherpurp'oses, such, for example, as'holdingand dispensing paper towels.

v The primary object ofmy .inventionflis to produce a comparatively simple and inexpensive holder' with which a package of fiat sheets of paper can be r eadily connected, and such sheets can be easily, quickly,

and conveniently fed one at a time from such package.

It is customary to fasten together the sheets of toilet-paper in a package with a wire having a loop at one end, the looped and straight terminals oi: suchxwlre being bent into angular relation to the maln portionthereof to hold the paperin. place and prevent it from slipping off 01": the wire at eitherv end, and my holder is adapted to utilize such wire when a package provided with the same is attachedto said holder. In the absence of such a wire in a package of paper, it is necessary tosupply the same.

Another object of my inventionisto provide-a device of the character described which is compact, and can be suspended from a nail or screw ustas the. ordinal-v 7 package of toiletpaper is suspended by means of the looped terminal of the wire of which mention has been made.

Still another object is to provide a holder package noiselessly,

lines in elevated position, aswell as by full travel. j

i TOILET-f'APER HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent. at nt Man 1 22, Application filed March 17,

1921. Serial No. 453,070;

with dispensing or feeding means which are noiseless in their operation, so that the sheets of paper can be removed from the which. is an important advantage, especially when the holder is used for toilet-paper. I

Other objects and advantages will appear, in the course of the following description.

.I attain the objects and secure the advantages of my invention by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawingsfln which.

Figure 1 is a top plan of an appliance which embodies a practical form of my invention; Fig. 2, a front elevation of-said appliance, the position of the foremost sheet of paperwhen actuated'downward bythe feeder in position ready to be completely detached from the package being represented'by broken "lines, and, ,Fig. 3, a side elevation of said appliance, a portion of the backing being broken out to disclose certain parts which otherwise'would be hidden, and the feeder being represented by broken lines at the bottom or lower end of, its

Similar reference characters designate similar parts throughout the several views. In th drawings, a package 1 of fiat sheets of paper is shown in place in the holder, and a -wire2 is represented as passing through said package tromback to front a short distance below the top edge and in the longitudinal center thereof. At the rear end of the wire 2 is a loop or ring 3.

In order to utilize the wire! intconnection with my holder, it is necessary to straighten bothterminals so that ,the ringi3 7' therein, and also with a hook'8, a forwardlyand downwaidly-extending support 9, which support projects from the top edge portions of said backing, a hanger 1O suspendedffrom said support, and a feeder ll mounted on said'hanger.

The backingomay be made ofsheet metal, in which casethe lug 6 is struck out of the same, and the book 8 is struck out of said lug leaving an opening Tin the lug. The openmg 7 is provided to'receive the, head ot'fa nail or screw from which the holder is supported against a wall. The lug 6 is located a short distance below the top of the backing 5 in the vertical center thereof, and the central portion of the backing above said lug is cut away as represented at 12. The backing 5 is preferably somewhat larger in area than the area of the package 1. The support 9 may be made of, comparatively heavy round wire, and such wire maybe continued across the top portions of the back ing 5 on both directions from the opening 12, down the sides of said backing, and across the bottom: thereof, and the parts of said wire which extend along the edges of the backing are partially enclosed by turning such edges over such parts, as-represented at- 13. Thus the backing 5 is greatly strengthened and stiffened, and'there-is sufficient room behindthe flat portion of said "backing and the plane in which the back edges of the parts 13 are located toaccommodate the lug 6 and enable the holder to be suspended by said lug flat against the wall or in parallel relation thereto.

The holder 9 consists of two forwardly and upwardly projecting arms which are connected at their forward ends by a downwardly-extending V-shaped part 14:. The aforesaid arms extend in parallel relationship forwardly on each side of the opening 12 from the top portions of the backing 1.

The hanger lO-preferably consists of a U- shaped wire having at the upper ends eyes 15-45 through which the arms of the support 9 extend. In other words, the hanger 10 is mounted by means of the eyes 15 on the forwardly 3 extending portions of the hanger 9. The said portions orarms of the hanger have anupward lncllnation, as previously observed, and this is for the purpose of causlng the hanger 10 to gravitate toward the backing 5 or to have such atendency, and thus'retain the feeder 11 in contact with thepackage 1 when in place.

The feeder 11'is a block having vertical openings therein adjacent to the side edges ='thereof toreceive the-vertical members of the hanger 10. The horizontal member of thehanger 10 is below the block or feeder 11,

, and the latter rests onsuch member when in its lowermost and normal position. The feeder is adapted to be moved up and down on the hanger 10, and to facilitate this operation said feeder is provided on the front side with a handle or knob 16. The material of which the feeder 11 is constructed, or, in any event, of which the back side thereof is constructed, should be of anature which will readily form a frictional contact with orfrictionally engage the paper in the package 1, when said feeder is pressed against said paper. To this end the feeder 11 may be made of rubber in some form, or

may be provided with abrading material on the back side, when such feeder is constructed mainly of wood or material other than rubber.

In placing the package 1 in position in the holder, after the wire 2 has been prepared in the manner hereinbefore explained, the hanger 10 is held in its most forward position and while so held said package'is placed against the backing 5, the hook 4 is attached to the apex of the depending part 14 of the support 9, and the ring 3 'is slipped'over the hook 8, or said hook 4 mightbe engaged with the hook8 before forming the hook 4, andthe forward terminal of said wire bent down over said-part 14, then forming the hook 1. The package 1 is now suspended against the backing 5 by the wire 2 from the hook 8 and the support 9 in readiness'for use.

In removing the paper from the package 1 a sheet at a time, the knob 16 is grasped and the feeder llelevated, on the hanger 10 the position approximately shown by broken lines in Fig. 3, said hanger meanwhile being swung outward a little from the paper,

and then said feeder is pushed back into contact with the paper and pressed or carried downwardly to the bottom of said hanger, with the result that the foremost sheet is carried downwardly with said feeder, into .the broken-line position in Fig; 2, and left,

being held in such position by the frictional contact with such sheet of the sheets behind and the feeder in front. The lower portion of the foremost sheet now extends below the bottom of the remaining sheets in the package 1 and even below thebottom of the backing 5, and can, therefore, be readily grasped with the thumb and finger and drawn from between said feeder and the sheets behind said foremost sheet. When the foremost 'sheetis moved down as the result of'the conwhich is-notthe case when a sheet of paper is removed in the ordinary way from apackage. The operation of removing a sheet from the package 1 is repeated until all of the sheets have been removed or the package has become exhausted.

When all of the sheets have been removed, the wire 2 is removed from its supports and another package is placed in position in the holder in the same manner as before.

The feeder 11 has lateral lugs 17 through which the vertical or upright portionsof the hanger 10 extend, but this is an immaterial feature. I

More or less change in the shape, size, construction, and arrangement of'some or all of the parts in this appliance may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention, or exceeding the scope of what is claimed.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, in a holder of the class described, with a backing provided with front and rear supporting means for the suspension wire of a package of sheets of paper, of a hanger comprising side arms loosely mounted, in front of said backing, on certain of said means, and a feeder mounted on said arms to move up and down thereon, said feeder being adapted to contact with the foremost sheet of a package in said holder.

2. The combination, in a holder of the class described, with a backing adapted to support a package of sheets of paper, and provided with forwardlyand upwardlyextending supporting means, of a hanger comprising side arms loosely mounted on such inclined supporting means, and a feeder mounted on said arms to move up and down thereon, said feeder being capable of frictionally engaging the foremost of such sheets of paper.

3. The combination, in a holder of the class described, with a backing adapted to support a package of sheets of paper, and provided with forwardlyand upwardlyextending supporting means, of a U-shaped hanger having eyes at the tops of the verti cal parts thereof, by means of which eyes said hanger is loosely mounted on such inclined supporting means, and a feeder slidingly'mounted on said vertical parts of said hanger, said feeder being capable of fric tionally engaging the foremost of such sheets of paper.

4. The combination, in a holder of the class described, with a backing provided with rear supporting means for the suspension wire of a package of sheets of paper, and with forwardlyand downwardly-extending arms connected by a depending part, which latter affords a support for the forward terminal of such wire, of a hanger loosely mounted on said arms, and a feeder slidingly mounted on the vertical parts of said hanger, and adapted frictionally to engage the foremost sheet of paper in such package. 5. In a holder, of the class described, a backing provided with supporting means for a package of sheets of paper, a feeder for said sheets, a hanger for such feeder such hanger comprising side arms upon which said feeder is mounted to slide, and means from which such arms at the top are supported, said last-named supporting means being attached to said backing and inclined to impart to said hanger with said feeder a tendency to approach said backing, whereby said feeder is normally retained in contact with the paper.

JOHN B. ISHAM. Witnesses:

F. A. CUTTER, F. E. MARTIN. 

